On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Hisham <[email protected]> wrote:
> afraid the problem would be to extract the prefix from a module path
> reliably on Windows!

O yes!  You can take very little for granted on a Windows system!
Although there the strategy is to try get installed in one directory
and get the system to add you to the path; Windows paths end up
looking really nasty.

> Yes, this works, but I don't know if everyone would be happy with a
> LuaRocks "dependency". Anyway, you can't always please everyone...

Well, currently ldoc is one of those Lua programs that sit in a
directory and a user creates a shell script that refers to the main
Lua file, which then readjusts the Lua module path accordingly. (The
'require_here' pattern from Penlight).  That works fine. Fortunately,
we have if statements:  if I am a program that was installed with LR,
then I can ask LR where it put my stuff; if not, I can fall back on
some other heuristics.

steve d.

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